Lamellar cataract and rickets / by E. Treacher Collins.

  • Collins, E. Treacher (Edward Treacher), 1862-1937.
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[1895]
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    Reprinted from Vol. XV of the ' Ophthalmologic^ Society's Transactions.'] Lamellar cataract and rickets. By B. Treacher Collins. Davidson and Horner,* of Zurich, in 1865 first originated the idea that lamellar cataract was the result of rickets. Their views have been widely accepted on the Continent, but not so in this country; none of the text-books by the following authors make any mention of rickets in speaking of this form of cataract: Berry, Carter and Frost, Juler, Macnamara, Lawson, Nettleship, Power, Swanzy, Soelberg Wells. The supposed serological relation of rickets to lamellar cataract is well summed up in the following passage from the American translation of Fuchs' < Text-book on Diseases of the eye :'— Lamellar cataract almost always affects both eyes. Its time of origin falls within the first years of life. It is found, above all, in those children who have suffered from convulsions (Arlt). Such convulsions are mostly caused by rickets, and especially by the rachitic changes in the skull (craniotabes). The teeth at the same time are irregularly formed, often being represented simply by cubical or irregular stumps, which are covered unevenly by enamel, or in places are entirely denuded (rachitic teetb). Lamellar cataract, therefore, stands m aetiological connection with rickets (Horner). Inheritance of lamellar cataract is a not infrequent occurrence.'' Contenting myself with the above quotation, I will not further enter into all the arguments which have up to now been brought forward, for and against, the rotio- ♦ « Zur Lehre vom Schichtstanr, ' Inaug.-Disscrt.,' Zurich, 1865.